[PLUG] When Mailman list dies ...

[wes]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 3:30 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Sep 2019, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > As for your curiosity, someone probably never bothered to turn off the
> > mail server.
>
> Ben,
>
> In one case, there was a single mail list served by Mailman and I would
> have
> expected the owner to shut down Mailman when he cancelled that one list. In
> the other case there are still two lists remaining on Mailman. Still, if a
> list is deleted/removed/canceled why would Mailman continue to send
> subscription reminders to names signed up for the no-longer-existing mail
> list?
>
> Rich
>



Most likely answer is that the operator did not actually delete the mailing
list from Mailman. Possibly simply disabled incoming delivery, which
effectively disables the list while maintaining the message archive and
subscriber list, etc.

-wes